The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.
Jack Rutherford
- MP Sergeant
- (as John Rutherford)
Original John Tiller Girls
- Performers
- (as The Tiller Sunshine Girls)
William Bechtel
- Restaurant Patron
- (uncredited)
E.H. Calvert
- Gen. Hale
- (uncredited)
Stanley Campbell
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
André Cheron
- French Waiter
- (uncredited)
Edgar De Lange
- Military Policeman
- (uncredited)
Alexander Ikonnikov
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Owen Martin
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Alan Roscoe
- Capt. Jones
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film was a hit at the box office, earning "RKO" a profit of $400,000 ($5.98M in 2019) according to studio records.
- GoofsAfter a number with Tommy and Gilbert, Annette jumps off the roof of the car, expecting to be caught by the pair, but isn't. She lands on her posterior beside the car. In the next shot, when one of the MPs run up, she's in the same position but much further from the car.
- Quotes
Annette Marshall: Are you married?
Tommy Turner: No, I just naturally look worried.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown over a battlefield scene, with barbed wire.
- SoundtracksWHISTLING THE BLUES AWAY
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Tierney
Lyrics by Anne Caldwell
Performed by Bert Wheeler & Dorothy Lee
Later danced at Pierre's café by Original John Tiller Girls
Featured review
Comedy Set During WWI
I originally watched this movie when it was included in a set of 6 war movies on a combination disc of war classics. Given that the other movies on the disc were more war dramas I was expecting something similar even while reading the introductory paragraph on the box. While the movie is set during WWI in Paris (which in that war was NOT occupied by the Germans) that is about all of the war you will get. What this movie is is a Charlie Chaplin-esquire farce of two guys who go AWOL and have a good time. Obviously these two officers are of lesser caliber in the Army. The movie is typical of the slapstick comedy in the 20s and 30s, hence the Charlie Chaplin reference, but this is a talking movie but it does not rely on dialogue for the laughs. Not quite as classic as a Chaplin movie but decently funny none the less.
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- craig-378
- Mar 5, 2005
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $529,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Color
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